Francisco de Montejo

Francisco de Montejo y Alvarez (1488-15) was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the conquest of the Mayans in the 1500s. He landed in Mexico with a large Spanish army in 1538, and conquered Chichen Itza and other Mayan cities.

Biography
Montejo was from Salamanca, Spain, and emigrated to the Americas in 1514. He returned to Spain to report on the progress of the conquistadores fighting the indigenous peoples, and when he returned in 1538, he led an expedition to pacify the Yucatan, which was controlled by the hostile Mayans.